I forwarded that article to someone and they pointed out that much of it could also apply to the right -- particularly in the anti-vax, anti-mask, stop the steal segments.

> Debate and conversation, especially when they rely upon reason, rationality, science, evidence, epistemic adequacy, and other Enlightenment-based tools of persuasion are the very thing they think produced injustice in the world in the first place. Those are not their methods and they reject them. Their methods are, instead, storytelling and counter-storytelling, appealing to emotions and subjectively interpreted lived experience [...]

Having seen much of the education system focus in the past on writing how you "feel" about a subject rather than "evidence based" writing (thank goodness for common core!)... I'm not surprised.